I'm from Elizabethton and when I finished my hitch in the Army in 1976, going to California was on my list.I bought a pair of hiking boots,a good sleeping bag and backpack and started thumbing west...ended up in and loving San Diego and lived there through the 80's...but coming home to my moutains was easy.My mind set is more peacefull here than out west.I do miss sunset cliffs in OB...But we can go to the Covered Bridge with a bucket of KFC and not miss Cali at all...Go Vols!!!